Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

Adamson, Joy; Joy Adamson (Author); Dr. George B. Schaller (Foreword by); Lord William Percy (Preface by)

ISBN 10: 039474635X / ISBN 13: 9780394746357

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1987

About this Item

220 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine.

Seller Inventory # 4FislDd0010

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
• Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039474635X
• ISBN 13: 9780394746357
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Nancy Brescia (Cover Design)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Pets, Animals, Animal Training
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Biography, Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

There have been many tales of animals' return to the wild, but since its first publication in 1960, when the New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," one stands alone as the most original and perhaps best-loved animal story. Born Free is a classic which traces the extraordinary development of the lion cub Elsa in transition between two radically different worlds. As it captures the spirit of humankind's ability to cross the barriers to the natural world, Joy Adamson's unique tale remains -- in these destructive times, with one ecological disaster following upon another -- an idyll to return to again and again. Illustrated with all the highly evocative photographs that initially stirred the world, and updated with a new introduction by Dr. George B. Schaller, Director of Wildlife Conservation for the New York Zoological Society and long-time acquaintance of the Adamsons, this large-sized paperback edition again renews one of the most remarkable associations between man and wild beast ever told.

About the Author

Joy Adamson was born in Austria in 1910 and educated in Vienna. At twenty-six, she went to Kenya to visit friends and remained there until her death in 1980. A well-known painter and photographer, she was commissioned by the government of Kenya to paint portraits of African tribesmen and to photograph the indigenous flora of East Africa, for which she received the Grenfell Gold Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society. In addition to founding the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, devoted to the preservation of wildlife, she was the author of two other books, Living Free and Forever Free. She was married to George Adamson, the Senior Game Warden of the Northern Frontier Province in Kenya.